Comment submitted by Earthjustice et al. (Part 4 of 6)
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Summary: Faye Rice, representing NIOSH, provides technical comments on a methylene chloride risk evaluation. The agency argues that the EPA's risk assessment should better account for the hierarchy of controls, specifically by not assuming universal respirator use and by emphasizing engineering controls and substitution.
Earthjustice et al. submit the following documents as attachments to the comments submitted in opposition to a new PFAS premanufacture notice, P–26–0071 (4/6)
Attachments
- NIOSH Comments on MC Risk Evaluation (PDF)
- NRC Science and Decisions
- Opteon - Opteon 2P50 Developmental Dielectric Heat Transfer Fluid (PDF)
- ORD Toxicity Value for PFRpA (PDF)
- OSHA - Identifying Hazard Control Options - The Hierarchy of Controls (PDF)
- Perkins Guardian
- PFAS Framework - June 28, 2023 (PDF)
- PFAS Roadmap - October 2021 (PDF)
- Khan et al. 2025
- Kosmyna 2025 (PDF)
- Kwiatkowski 2020 (PDF)
- Lab Insights - Hydrofluoroethers - Sustainable Solutions for Electronics-Related Industries - November 14, 2024 (PDF)
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab Report 2016 (PDF)
- Lenny Siegel - Forever Chemicals Cool Data Centers - Ctr. for Pub. Envt Oversight - June 29, 2026 (PDF)
- Letter from EWG to EPA - EPA Re Request for Public Comment - February 22, 2021 (PDF)
- Maddy Lauria and Nick Stonesifer - Dozens of Delawareans Allege Years of Mercury Poisoning at Former Chemical Plant - August 8, 2024
- Micron DEIS Comments - August 11, 2025 (PDF)
- Miguel Yanez-Barnuevo - Communities Are Raising Noise Pollution Concerns About Data Centers Environmental and Energy Study Inst. - March 23, 2026
- National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine - 2022
- Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid in Drinking Water March 2024 (PDF)